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Quick quiz: Tick-transmitted disease—Can you make the diagnosis?

Test your knowledge of common tick-borne diseases by reading through the clinical signs and making a diagnosis.

Feb 22, 2017

By dvm360.com staff

FIRSTLINE

Ticks are creepy little bloodsucking vectors of pathogens. When patients come in with clinical signs of these diseases are you on your diagnosis “A-game?” Test your knowledge by reading through the clinical signs listed below and choosing the disease you think is the culprit. Then click to the next page and see if you’re correct.

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The deer or black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis) pictured above is a common carrier of the pathogen that can cause these clinical signs: